Have you ever been playing Minecraft and said to yourself "Man, I wish this could be harder... I haven't died nearly enough today."? In the spirit of I Wanna Be the Guy and Kaizo Mario World, these game maps will be very difficult. It could be low amounts of a critical resource, or deviously placed monster spawners, traps, or just general meanness on my part, I want to take the normal Minecraft experience and really put pressure on the player.
The main objective of my maps is to find and complete the Victory Monument. This is a structure with slots on it for blocks. To win a Super Hostile map, you must place each of the requested blocks in the appropriate slot on the Victory Monument. There are 16 colors of wool blocks to find, and also in older maps, the 3 material blocks, of iron, gold, and diamond.
CTM stands for Complete the Monument, which is the genre my Super Hostile series created. Unlike Adventure maps, which typically have very rigid rules and restrictions, CTM maps are about playing Minecraft in a mostly normal fashion, but with a goal to work towards.
Super Hostile Standard Rules:
1) Find and complete the Victory Monument.
2) Find wool in chests (Fleecy Boxes) or on special boss enemies (Fleecy Mobs) scattered around the map, do NOT use dyes or spider string for wools!
3) You may craft the Iron, Gold, and Diamond blocks.
4) Use at least Easy difficulty, and never Peaceful. (I balance around Normal.)
5) Do not leave the boundaries of the map and go into normally generated Minecraft terrain.
6) Survive in any way you can think of. (Yes, you can mine, craft, and place blocks.)
7) You may use spider string wool and sheep wool to craft beds and other items, but not for the Victory Monument.
8) You may not pick up, craft, or move Ender Chests.
For the most part, Super Hostile is like playing Minecraft normally, but it's more difficult and you have a long-term goal to work towards. Also you may find yourself in some unusual terrain. Oh, and the map is designed to kill you, so keep that in mind.
Currently Under Construction:
Super Hostile: Dalania
Latest Release:
Super Hostile: Icelation
The new official home of Super Hostile is here! Download the maps at:
https://vechsdavion.com/
Support Super Hostile directly here!
And lastly, here is a bunch of legal stuff. The short version is: feel free to make videos about my maps, watching people play helps me make better maps; please don't rip-off my work and claim it as your own; and please don't upload my work to other websites.
Users are free (and encouraged) to create videos of the MAPS and share the videos online, using websites such as YouTube. Users are also free to include advertisements and monetize their videos of my maps. Watching people play my maps is by far the best way for me to learn how to make better maps. If you have made video's or LP's (Let's Play series) of my maps, then thank you very much!
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
MAP (MAPS, plural) - Data that interfaces with the Minecraft client to extend, add, change or remove game content.
MOJANG - Mojang AB
OWNER - , Original author(s) of the MAP. Under the copyright terms accepted when purchasing Minecraft (http://www.minecraft.net/copyright.jsp) the OWNER has full rights over their MAP despite use of MOJANG code.
USER - End user of the map, person installing the map.
THESE MAPS ARE PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITH NO WARRANTIES, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE. THE OWNER OF THESE MAPS TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGES INCURRED FROM THE USE OF THESE MAPS. ALL DAMAGES CAUSED FROM THE USE OR MISUSE OF THESE MAPS FALL ON THE USER.
Use of these MAPS to be installed, manually or automatically, is given to the USER without restriction.
These MAPS may only be distributed where uploaded, mirrored, or otherwise linked to by the OWNER solely. All mirrors of these MAPS must have advance written permission from the OWNER. ANY attempts to make money off of these MAPS (selling, selling modified versions, adfly, sharecash, etc.) are STRICTLY FORBIDDEN, and the OWNER may claim damages or take other action to rectify the situation.
These MAPS are provided freely and may be decompiled and modified for private use, either with a decompiler or a bytecode editor. Public distribution of modified versions of these MAPS require advance written permission of the OWNER and may be subject to certain terms.
"Super Hostile", "Victory Monument", "Super Docile", "Hostile Trails", the "Vechs'" brand and "Race for Wool" are Trademarked ™(2011) by the author. The MAPS herein and the character "Vechs" are Copyright ?(2011) and are the intellectual property of the author (Vechs).
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See updated post. Tl;Dr: Replace the Ethernet cable, TB-E adapters are picky.
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1. Your MacBook OR Router is negotiating the link at 100Mbps instead of 1Gbps. All Airport Timecapsules seem to support Gigabit ethernet, so this should NOT be the case. Check your settings in Airport utility.
2. Your ethernet cable does not support 1Gbps (unlikely but possible) OR is defective. Try using a different cable.
3. Your adapter is defective.
4. Your Airport/Timecapsule is defective.
EDIT: If this discussion is correct, you can fix your issue simply by replacing the ethernet cable.
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Safety? Are we child molesters or forum moderators?
Enforcing the rules is bad guys! We shouldn't enforce them! That's bad!
Or, you know, you could just follow the rules instead of complaining about how you broke rules and got caught.
I guess the admins don't exist.
Counter-resistance? I thought this was a dictatorship, not anarchy!
<rage intensifies>
<rage reaching critical levels>
Wat.
I'm sure Curse Inc is shaking in their international boots at this threat.
GUUIZZ!!! MODERATORS ARE EVVVVIIILLLLL FOR ENFORCING THE RULLLEEESSS!!!
Aka "I took Psych 101, now I'm a master at interpreting people's motives over the internet". For all he knows, the moderator is a dog.
After reading all of that:
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Topic locked.
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128 threads might.
I'm pretty sure the entire current E5 and E7 lines outperform the E31270V3 on total compute performance, and some may beat it on thread performance too.
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You can get the E5-1620 v2 for $300 at superbiiz.
The equivalent GPU is a W7000. Almost the same specs, twice the memory, $700 each at Newegg.
A 2011 socket mobo that supports 1866 RAM is $290 from Supermicro via Amazon.
2x8GB sticks of registered 1866 ECC RAM (AX31866R13Z) is $270 at Amazon.
http://www.newegg.co...N82E16820226453 - $330, 800MB/s+. Realistically only 100MB/s behind the Mac Pro in speed, plus 16GB less storage.
For the PSU... Let's assume this draws maybe 850W. Probably more, possibly as much as 1000W, but whatever. A RM850 is decent enough, and around $150.
$100 for $generic_workstation_case
Grand total is $2840
A Mac Pro is $2999. A Mac Pro with the same amount of RAM is $3099.
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I did some more research, and found out a few interesting things. Updated MP vs custom workstation below.
Mac Pro advantages: A very slightly faster/larger SSD (something that no sane person would ever notice in the real world), Thunderbolt, and a smaller form factor.
Custom workstation advantages: Way better expandability, twice the VRAM, slightly faster GPUs (the D300 is a bit slower than the W7000), mobo RAID support.
(and of course, the #1 benefit of building a custom workstation is being able to choose something a bit less beefy than dual W7000/D300 GPUs if you don't need that much power)
Thunderbolt could be argued a pro or a con. The W7000 GPUs have DisplayPort outputs, so display support isn't important. The main uses of thunderbolt would be either external PCI cards, external adapters, or external drive arrays. Between the large quantity of USB ports/headers, the numerous SATA ports, and the multiple PCIe slots, I don't think there are any reasonable ways to argue having Thunderbolt is superior.
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Bitcoin, yes. Litecoin, no.
Thanks to the media frenzy around Bitcoin, Litecoin's popularity and price have shot up by an incredible margin. Litecoin uses scrypt, which works extremely well on graphics cards. Also, thanks to Litecoin needing reasonably large (relative to Bitcoin) quantities of speedy memory, it is much harder to create ASICs for Litecoin than it was for Bitcoin. (On the other hand, this means that the difference between CPUs and GPUs for Litecoin mining is a bit less noticable than with Bitcoin mining). Currently, mining litecoin with certain AMD graphics cards under certain conditions is profitable. Even as the difficulty goes up, profitability is still staying somewhat high thanks to the currency's rapid increase in price. There are a very large number of people betting on their mining rigs staying cost-effective as the difficulty continues to increase, which is why you've suddenly got a massive shortage of certain cards.
Examples of Litecoin mining setups both large and small (stolen from /r/litecoin as proof):
Decent article that investigated card sales statistics and confirmed that most of them appear to be due to Litecoin mining: http://www.brightsid...adeon-gpus.aspx
Disclaimer: Mining cryptocurrencies is a very stupid idea over the long term. This is people trying to emulate Bitcoin's success in a "get rich quick" attempt. I don't recommend joining them. With recent difficulty and card price increases, attempting to start mining now will result in you loosing money unless profitability/price increases again. Purchasing Litecoin directly is a (somewhat) better idea. On another note, cryptocurrencies will only become truly successful once the exchange rate stabilizes and businesses start dealing directly in bitcoins instead of using them as a proxy for other currencies.
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A common belief is that the placebo effect is largely a “mind-over-matter effect,” but this is a misconception. There is no compelling evidence that the mind can create healing simply through will or belief. However, mood and belief can have a significant effect on the subjective perception of pain. There is no method to directly measure pain as a phenomenon, and studies of pain are dependent upon the subjective report of subjects. There is therefore a large potential for perception and reporting bias in pain trials. But there are biological mechanisms by which mental processes can affect pain. There are many non-specific factors that can biochemically suppress pain. For example, increased physical activity can release endorphins that naturally inhibit pain. For these reasons the placebo effect for pain is typically high, around 30%.
But the more concrete and physiological the outcome, the smaller the placebo effect. Survival from serious forms of cancer, for example, has no demonstrable placebo effect. There is a “clinical trial effect,” as described above – being a subject in a trial tends to improve care and compliance, but no placebo effect beyond that. There is no compelling evidence that mood or thought alone can help fight off cancer or any similar disease.
Other conditions are more objective than pain, but are special because they have a strong influence from the neuro-endocrine system. This system translates psychological stress into physical stress, by releasing stress hormones and increasing activity in the sympathetic nervous system. So, for example, for heart disease mood matters quite a bit. Someone who has an A-type personality and is always angry and upset is at higher risk of a heart attack than someone who is mellow and unstressed. But here there is a known physiological connection between mood and a specific organ – the heart. This cannot be extrapolated to other diseases; it doesn’t mean you can smile your cancer away.
Many people talk about the neuroendocrine system’s effect on the immune system. Again, here there is a physiological connection. Stress hormones do suppress the immune system, and it is probably true that extreme stress leaves us physically susceptible to disease for this reason. But the effects of moderate levels of stress are not established. Also, we cannot extrapolate from the risk of getting a cold to the ability to fight off cancer. You have to look at the evidence for each disease unto itself. So while this is a potential contributor, it is overall probably a small effect except in extreme situations.
The lack of any real biological placebo effect has led some to question the necessity of having a placebo control in clinical trials. However, I feel there is still a need for a double-blind placebo-controlled design for most clinical trials because that is the only way to minimize the effects of bias on trial outcomes. The factors I listed above will still create the illusion of an effect and the only way to control for this is with a placebo group.
Therefore the placebo effect is fairly complex and is largely an artifact of observation and confounding factors. Any real benefits that contribute to the placebo effect can be gained by more straightforward methods – like healthy habits, compliance with treatment, and good health care. The placebo effect is not evidence for any mysterious mind-over-matter effect, but since the mind is matter (the brain) and is connected to the rest of the body, there are some known physiological effects that do play a role (although often greatly exaggerated).
In light of all this, I do not feel that knowingly prescribing a placebo treatment is effective or ethical medicine. Modern scientific medicine should strive for interventions that physiologically are scientifically plausible and have sufficient evidence for safety and effectiveness. But I do think there are lessons to be learned from the placebo effect – there are aspects of therapy that do go beyond the physiological intervention. Medicine is not only an applied science; it is the art of humans treating other humans. As part of effective treatment it is helpful to try to maximize all those human intangibles that contribute to a good outcome. But we can do this in the context of scientifically valid treatment, and without crossing the ethically dubious line of deception.
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